John Kerrigan

John Kerrigan is a professor of English at Cambridge. His books include Archipelagic English: Literature, History and Politics 1603-1707. He is writing a book about Shakespeare.

In the LRB Archive:

• Fathers Who Live Too Long: Shakespeare’s Property · 12 September 2013

  • Being and Having in Shakespeare by Katharine Eisaman Maus

• The Ticking Fear: Louis MacNeice · 7 February 2008

  • Louis MacNeice: Collected Poems edited by Peter McDonald
  • Louis MacNeice: Selected Poems edited by Michael Longley
  • I Crossed the Minch by Louis MacNeice
  • The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice, edited by E.R. Dodds

• Old, Old, Old, Old, Old: Late Yeats · 3 March 2005

  • W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915-39 by Roy Foster

• Touching and Being Touched: Valentine Cunningham · 19 September 2002

  • Reading after Theory by Valentine Cunningham

• Hand and Foot: Seamus Heaney · 27 May 1999

  • Opened Ground: Poems 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney
  • The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran
  • Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler

• When Eyesight is Fully Industrialised · 16 October 1997

  • Open Sky by Paul Virilio, translated by Julie Rose

• Birth of a Náison · 5 June 1997

  • The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-41 edited by J.F. Merritt
  • The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago edited by Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill
  • The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture edited by Malcolm Smuts
  • Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, its Development and Literary Expression Prior to the 19th Century by Joep Leerssen

• Rooting for Birmingham · 2 January 1997

  • The Dow Low Drop: New and Selected Poems by Roy Fisher

• Belonging · 18 July 1996

  • The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird by Justin Quinn
  • Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time by Eavan Boland
  • Collected Poems by Eavan Boland
  • Captain Lavender by Medbh McGuckian

• Travellers · 13 October 1988

  • Archaic Figure by Amy Clampitt
  • Tourists by Grevel Lindop
  • Sleeping rough by Charles Boyle
  • This Other Life by Peter Robinson
  • In the Hot-House by Alan Jenkins
  • Monterey Cypress by Lachlan Mackinnon
  • My Darling Camel by Selima Hill
  • The Air Mines of Mistila by Philip Gross and Sylvia Kantaris
  • X/Self by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott

• Vendlerising · 2 April 1987

  • The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry edited by Helen Vendler
  • Selected Poems by John Ashbery
  • The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1986/87 edited by Jonathan Barker
  • Two Horse Wagon Going By by Christopher Middleton

• Keeping the show on the road · 6 November 1986

  • Tribute to Freud by H. D
  • In Dora’s Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism edited by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane
  • The Essentials of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud, edited by Anna Freud
  • Freud and the Humanities edited by Peregrine Horden
  • Freud for Historians by Peter Gay
  • The Psychoanalytic Movement by Ernest Gellner
  • The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art by Leo Bersani

• Diary · 6 February 1986

• Brave as hell · 21 June 1984

  • Enderby’s Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby by Anthony Burgess
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Edition edited by A.L. Rowse

• The New Narrative · 16 February 1984

  • The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie
  • Time’s Oriel by Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • On Gender and Writing edited by Michelene Wandor
  • Stone, Paper, Knife by Marge Piercy
  • The Achievement of Ted Hughes edited by Keith Sagar
  • Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon
  • River by Ted Hughes and Peter Keen
  • Quoof by Paul Muldoon

• A horn-player greets his fate · 1 September 1983

  • Horn by Barry Tuckwell

• Shakespeare and the Stage · 21 April 1983

  • Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance by Michael Hattaway
  • Shakespeare the Director by Ann Pasternak Slater

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